Sarah Ferguson below the benefit line.

[Grumpmeister]

Why do we get shows like this, with vacuous morons dealing with a serious subject. There is no way that Fergie could live below the benefit line.

The Duchess of York has spent six months with a family of six who live on benefits for a new ITV1 documentary.

She told Radio Times she could live in a council house, but that she would "make it nice inside" and not smoke.

During her on-and-off stay with the Sargersons family, she slept in a £40-a-night bed-and-breakfast in Hull.

After making the two-part documentary on obesity and eating, the Duchess said Britain was eating itself "to death". The series starts on 19 May.

She said she got on very well with the family, who live on benefits of £80 a week.

"It took the family 20 minutes to get used to me. I get on well with anybody.

"They're very special - the salt of the earth, kind, loving. I've seen families all over the world who live like them."

She added: "I could live in a council house and below the benefit line, of course. Anyone could.

"But I wouldn't smoke and I'd make it nice inside and eat green vegetables because I was brought up on a farm."

[Nick]

I was brought up on a farm

 

Humphrey Littleton once asked the team to update nursery rhymes.

He began

"The Grand old Duke of York
He had 10000 men........."

Graeme Garden jumped in

"A tradition maintained in our own time by the Duchess of York."
 

[Pastis]

 

[Just One More]

I was brought up on a farm

 

It wasn't the largest of farms though Nick, only 250 acres

http://www.savills.co.uk/news.aspx?category=rural&id=7191&page=0

I know her mum and her brother, both are really nice people, her brother is one of the quietest guys you could ever wish to meet, a true gentleman. I've never shared a hob-nob with him though

[Snoopy]

My mother's family owned the shop and post office in that village for years.
And the coach company (Porters of Dummer)

My Godmother was the village school teacher.

[Just One More]

My mother's family owned the shop and post office in that village for years.
And the coach company (Porters of Dummer)

My Godmother was the village school teacher.

Sadly the post office/shop closed about a year ago Snoopy. The only place of note left in the village is the Queens Head pub

[Snoopy]

My mother's family owned the shop and post office in that village for years.
And the coach company (Porters of Dummer)

My Godmother was the village school teacher.

Sadly the post office/shop closed about a year ago Snoopy. The only place of note left in the village is the Queens Head pub

Yes ~ they tell me I wouldn't know the place nowadays. Another good reason for not going back.
Mind you they sold up some years ago now .... when the last of the family (on that side) committed suicide.
Cousins of my Mother's ~ shared Grandparents etc. Very big family.

Nearby is Cliddesden which is where my mother's grandmother came from. In one census (1851) her family accounted for over two thirds of the population of that village (hamlet as it was then).

In that general area I have more relations than Rabit of the Hundred Acre Wood (as the saying goes)

Sorry this must be very boring. I'll shut up.

[Uncle Mort]

No, no it's fascinating, really fascinat...

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[Nick]

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Oh yeah

WHere were we?

[Snoopy]

 

[Nick]

SO why do they call her "badger"?

[Snoopy]

Who?

http://tinyurl.com/p2tm